When it comes to the great surge we’ve seen at the box office for documentaries, “investment by someone or some entity” like CNN Films makes all the difference according to RBG co-director and producer Julie Cohen.

“If you’re making a documentary for $50K, there’s going to be limitations on what the quality is going to…

Three Identical Strangers’ Sunday launch on CNN is now the most watched CNN Films premiere ever on the network. The film also ranked No. 1 in cable news Sunday night in both the key news demographic and total viewers.

The film is about identical triplets adopted out to three families who reunited through coincidence as…

SeaWorld and its former CEO, James Atchison, have agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle federal charges that they covered up the negative impact of the documentary film Blackfish on the company.

The 2013 Magnolia-CNN Films release took viewers behind the scenes of SeaWorld’s popular killer-whale shows to expose…

Neon has picked up worldwide theatrical rights to Todd Douglas Miller's cinematic space event documentary, Apollo 11. According to producers, the film about the NASA space mission to the moon features “never-before-seen, large-format film footage.”

The docu is executive produced by CNN Films, which will retain the…

CNN Films and Oscar-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams are teaming for American Jail, a new film that explores what fuels the country’s prison system. The docu is set to premiere at 9 PM July 1 on CNN.

The logline: Writer-director-producer Williams' investigation presents a range of stakeholder positions and off…

Magnolia Pictures has released its trailer for RBG, Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that world premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. That’s where Magnolia and Participant Media scored worldwide rights after its bow in the Doc Premieres category. CNN Fi…

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival will open April 18 with the world premiere of Love, Gilda, a CNN Films documentary about comedian Gilda Radner.

The film is the directing debut of Lisa D'Apolito, who got support from Radner’s estate. It emphasizes Radner’s words and voice by weaving together audiotapes, home movies and d…

"I think it's about time," said Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today at the Sundance Film Festival about the rise of the #MeToo movement. "For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could about it," the almost 25-year SCOTUS vet added of the renewed response to widespread sexual…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American theatrical and streaming rights to The Reagan Show, with CNN Films landing North American broadcast rights. The deal comes as the film co-directed by Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill readies for its world premiere this weekend in the the Tribeca Film…

 CNN Films and Content Media Corporation have acquired rights to documentary Elián, co-directed by Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell, and executive produced by Alex Gibney.

CNN Films has acquired television broadcast and CNN-branded authenticated television exhibition rights in U.S and Canada, from Fine Point Films. London…

CNN Films’  debut of Sundance docu Holy Hell was No. 1 in its timeslot with 384K in the news demo – a 20% jump for the cable news network compared to the prior four Thursdays in the slot.

CNN edged out FNC’s 370k and MSNBC’s 357k in the demo. In its CNN debut last night, Holy Hell clocked 1.03M total viewers. FNC led…

The Orchard has carved out global rights to Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, a documentary about the brash and controversial chef behind California cuisine. The pic from CNN Films will have its world premiere Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival and get a theatrical release via the Orchard in early 2017.

CNN reta…